Keefer and the Beats: The Lions rise, the Rams rebound, and the Raiders confound
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Any list of best teams in the NFL this season has to include the Detroit Lions. Any list of 3-3 teams, meanwhile, has to include the Rams and Raiders. The list of guests on this week's Keefer and the Beats includes all of The Athletic reporters who cover those teams. Colton Pouncy (Lions), Jourdan Rodrigue (Rams) and Tashan Reed (Raiders) join Zak Keefer on this episode to break down their teams one-third of the way through the season.
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| 0:32.5 | This is the athletic football shows K Kiefer and the Beats. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome back to the athletic football show. |
| 0:47.2 | This is Zach Kiefer, and this is week six of Kiefer and the Beats. |
| 0:51.4 | Sunday across the league, the story was backup quarterbacks. |
| 0:55.4 | One in Cleveland, PJ Walker, who's been cut 11 times in this league, and at one point |
| 1:00.7 | was the best player in the XFL, helped the Browns hand the 49ers their first loss of |
| 1:06.0 | the season. |
| 1:07.1 | Then a few hours later, up the road in the Meadowlands, Zach Wilson and the Jets beat the Eagles for the first time in franchise history, |
| 1:13.6 | giving Philly its first loss of the year. |
| 1:16.0 | Even Tyrod Taylor almost helped the Giants upset the bills last night. |
| 1:20.1 | So no more unbeatens. |
| 1:21.7 | And so far it feels like a year of parity. |
| 1:24.1 | 13 teams right now in the AFC are at 500 or better. And ironically enough, the two teams in last place at 1 and 5 are led by Super Bowl winning head coaches. That's the Patriots and the Broncos. But a full month and a half into the season, we're seeing teams start to really reveal who they are, even if the final score on Sunday doesn't tell the full story. |
| 1:46.0 | So on today's show, we're going to go a little bit behind the scenes and find out who these |
| 1:49.4 | teams are from the beat writers that are there every day. We will start with one of the best |
| 1:54.2 | teams in football, and this is not a joke. It's the Detroit Lions. They're five and one. One of |
| 2:00.0 | the best offenses in the league in a very, very good top 10 defense. |
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